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Besides "waging peace," the Navy would wage neutrality. Despite their martial preoccupations, Navy men are students of U. S. trade. They know that if other nations war, the Navy may be called on to protect the neutral rights of U. S. merchantmen. About merchant shipping they point...
Interesting observations on the shifting attitude of the public toward the U. S. policy in Nicaragua can be made in those great American meeting halls of thought and opinion, the movie palaces. A month ago, the news reel of Marines embarking, if accompanied by martial music and a flash of the Stars and Stripes was good for a creditable demonstration, hand clapping and whistling trailing off into original and gratuitous noises. A similar picture at Boston's largest theatre this week was received with a cold and stony silence. Not so at the Harvard's own University Theatre. Here...
Chaos. "At the beginning of this decade the Government of the State was more or less in chaos"-owing to martial preoccupations...
...More than 700 native Rhinelanders have been arraigned before Allied courts-martial on "trifling charges," this year, and some have been punished by whippings...
...detectives. The detectives returned the fire. The workmen poured oil on the barges and on the river, and prepared to set the oil afire. The detectives surrendered. Seven men were killed and 20 to 30 wounded. The state government sent troops and put the Homestead Steel Works district under martial law. That broke the strike, but not before eleven strikers and spectators were killed and many a trooper and civilian was stoned or clubbed. Bitter and bloody as the strike was, it brought wisdom to all steel employers and eventual benefits to the employes. In the battle Mr. Schwab...